Biloxi Survivor says “President Bush shouldn’t be the president no more.”
David Schuster interviewed Robert, an auto mechanic in Biloxi and he asked for him to commnet on President Bush’s speech.
— Crooks & Liars came through for me and FOUND this video. I heard this guy live on MSNBC yesterday and knew that MSNBC would NEVER replay it . David Schuster was shaking because he knew he’d fucking blew it letting that guy on the air, live. YOU MUST WATCH and YOU MUST PASS on FAR AND WIDE. (Can anyone transcribe Robert’s remarks? I wish he’d come here. I’d feed him and give him a clean bed.)
Robert’s anger and desperation will break your heart. Schuster’s following remarks are also heart-rending. People’s children are screaming and crying because they’re so hungry.
it might take a bit ’cause the little one is not acting sick at all and getting into all sorts of stuff, but it would be my honor to do it, if someone else hasn’t already picked it up….
Go for it. It’d probably be great to have two or three people do it so you can compare notes …
and then we need to share it with Crooks & Liars. I love him.
And let’s click on Crooks & Liars’ ads so he gets revenue from the considerable strain this will put on his servers.
C-posted at DailyKos — PLEASE RECOMMEND. (I don’t ask usually, but …)
Schuster: Well Ron, we’ve relayed the President’s comments to somebody who’s right here in the midst of it all, robert wack (?) an auto mechanic in Biloxi, and Robert, I just expained to you what we just played about President Bush, what’s you reactioN?
Robert: President Bush don’t need to be the President no more. Cuz President Bush ain’t doin his job. We got the whole coastline destroyed. I’m out here starving, hungry, I finally got me a bottle of water and able to call my momma…
Schuster: Robert, Robert where do you live, I mean, where, what’s the problem right now, where do you live?
Robert: I live right off porter avenue, on (?), and I mean, my apartment’s still standing, but I ain’t got no help, I’m fitting to leave. If I ain’t get gas and leave, I mean…
Schuster: So you need gasoline, you’re not getting gasoline, what else?
Robert: The Police are buying up every drop of gas that is out there. They’re, they’re mobbing the stores and they won’t let noone get no gas. I’m stuck here now cuz I ain’t got no gas. I’m looking at that black car back there and I’m fitting to go get me some gas. Believe dat, and it ain’t looting, it’s surviving.
Schuster: As you can see Ron, um…
Robert: It’s surviving…
I’m sorry Susan, it looks like they have a time limit for recommending diaries 🙁
Dammit
They’re evacuating the Hyatt!!! And having a hard time moving people because “people are goin’ down”. I’m listening to the real news with Scott McClellan’s fucking muted face blathering on my other monitor. Bastards – people in the Hyatt. Anyone heard about where these buses have been appropriated from? I haven’t… I can take a guess though. Wanna’ bet they’ve paid their bills and graciously expressed their gratitude for the survival that the Hyatt has no doubt miraculously managed to provide for them? Wanna’ bet that once every paying white tourist is out of town, the “maliciously” started fires get out of control?
Fuckers!!!
I feel so impotent. If I had a small plane or helicopter, I’d fucking fly over myself and drop supplies.
I would express the same sentiment – but as a Canadian – I would no doubt be turned away at the border….like the highly trained, fully equipped Urban Search and Rescue team.
I’m breaking…
Called the senator and screamed…made a friend do it too.
This is so horrendous. I almost can’t believe it’s my country.
The caption under the video — damn straight Bush can’t tell us how devistating the sites are — he hasn’t fucking been there — he was to high up in the air to see babies dehydrating and hear people scremaing for food and medical help. My dog, what have we come to?
reporter in the press briefing…
“displaced people” & “refugees”.
We, people are witnessing a mass kulakization in the fucking United States of America….
(sorry Susan to just dump in your diary… but…)
This is exactly the sort of governmental ineptitude you’d expect in Soviet Russia. Everyone was horrified at the probably needless loss of life in the Moscow theater, and in the Beslan school. Our government is behaving exactly the same way! In the absence of leadership, all that is left are lying, self-serving, non-reality-based apparatchiks who see human life as cheap and expendable.
Complete with their very own PRAVDAs.
So they have no need to loot, there are places for them to go – nobody asks where? Navy ships are loaded with supplies. FIVE DAYS for them to travel to the gulf. Never heard of a transport airplane. Listening to Scotty and his little gang is making me puke all over the television.
Fabulous catch BUT- get the Diane Saywer – bush interview this morning! This is the one that gets the chimp!
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When you see something like that, don’t keep it to yourself or share it in comments.
E-mail me or — better yet — e-mail Crooks & Liars — his tip e-mail is at his site.
TRY to give him helpful info like:
THE NAME of the show
WHO was on the air
WHEN it occurred — at what time point, precisely
WHAT was said (“it was great” doesn’t cut it … he needs specifics because it’s a lot of trouble to get the video for each item)
I would like to hear the interview as the camera pans over what is now New Orleans, Biloxi and other devastated areas. Areas where people have been neglected for too many hours by GWB.
He has ruined America’s chance to show the world how it takes care of its people in an emergency.
He has ruined America’s chance to show the world how it takes care of its people in an emergency.
He has shown the world just how his version of America takes care of its people in an emergency. Clearly, not much better than the way he has treated the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
C&L is working on it!
But his five servers are overwhelmed at the moment so he can’t upload anything new for an hour.
he needs more servers…. and more clicks :):)
the evident dangers in his own country. The warnings about New Orleans and the gulf coast were available on international media. Even FEMA foretold this disaster.
The WH does not seem to have the ability to foretell anything in the future by analysis of the past and the present. It’s not fortune telling, it is just projecting into the future the problems and trends we see now.
I knew that herding the people who could/would not evacuate into the superdome looked ominous from the beginning and I know many shared that uneasiness.
My heartbreaking condolences to Americans.
Too much – the stuff that the scanners are picking up… some guy is trying to get fuel to buses at (location) – has to explain – totally exasperated – the buses are NOT for the Superdome!!! Need fuel for buses for National Guard troops!! Someone finally decides to try to work with him and get it happening…..
Jesus Christ!
These poor guys – holy shit.
This is fascinating stuff … not to mention, of course, infuriating … please keep us posted.
Do diaries on this too.
FOOD AND WATER DROPS RIGHT FUCKING NOW! WHERE ARE THE HELICOPTERS!
Is my hero. Truth to fucking power. Bush and ilk are fucking idiots. This is absolutely the worst response I have ever seen to any disaster. How in the fuck can we not have an effective plan in action four days after the actual disaster, and a few more since they should have known the potential for this?
maybe I shouldn’t be such a bigot. There has been some Iraqi guy, probably screaming this same shit toward a TV screen me, in Arabic that I didn’t bother to translate.
We have put a whole country through this for like, how many years now.
I am just stunned that we are going to be this callous to our own.
I’m watching on MSNBC the reoprt from the convention center with people starving and dropping from dehydration. I just called Senator McCain’s office in DC to implore him to do something. The aide on the phone said "I think what’s going on is it’s the media, the media is not reporting the whole picture. There is a massive federal presence in New Orleans." God. I’ve just commited myself to campaign massively against John McCain.
The aide on the phone said “I think what’s going on is it’s the media, the media is not reporting the whole picture. There is a massive federal presence in New Orleans.”
And they’re rebuilding schools and handing out candy. The media is just not showing you that!!
Just like the media is not showing all the “good work” that has been done in Iraq
All these years of talk from Democrats and Democratic partisans and wannabee players and crap about a blogosphere revolution…
The supposed “need” to listen to the voices of, to woo, to get the attention of the comfortable red-state exurbians and swing voters…
POINTLESS.
Here’s where your revolution is going to come from:
And it’s not going to be a revolution at the ballot box, I’m sorry to say.
A woman tried to give away her three month old baby to get her on the bus. She pleaded with someone to take her baby so she would survive because she has lost hope in surviving in New Orleans.
This has been running through my head all day.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Our current government has failed the people of the gulf region.
Our current government has failed us all.
I still have hope that we can recover it – but that is going to take the Democractic party standing up. We MUST address poverty in this nation. We must challenge the corporate/military/industrial complex. The status quo is unacceptable. The current situation is untenable.
Our government has failed us.
We the people are mighty outraged at this point — they will NOT spin this away — and I hold them ALL responsible every last stinking worthless one of them.
As my Greek grandfather used to say:
PARASITES.
I called my senators and my representative … first, they are INUNDATED with calls, and that’s in Washington state.
The Norm Dicks guy asked me what I wanted Norm Dicks to do … I paused …
AIR DROP FOOD TO THEM NOW!
THE MSNBC PHOTOJOURNALIST JUST SAW TWO BABIES DIE IN FRONT OF HIM!
THEIR ONLY LEADER AT THE SUPERDOME IS HARRY CONNICK Jr. — said the MSNBC PHOTOJOURNALIST.
There are NO POLICE OR NAT’L GUARD at the SUPERDOME!
People are LOOTING BECAUSE THEY”RE DESPERATE!
TELL HIM TO GET PLANES IN THE AIR TODAY AND DROP FOOD AND WATER TO THOSE PEOPLE.
TELL HIM TO GET TO D.C. and PASS SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
TELL HIM to TAKE OVER because BUSH Can’t DO IT.
(The guy was exhausted by the time I was done. But somber. He said he’d tell Norm Dicks. )
(Almost everything I reported was from that MSNBC photojournalist at the SUperdome … he could not film most of what he saw — and MSNBC says it can’t show most of what he DID film — and he said he had to leave because he couldn’t take it anymore. There is one older man, who kind of took charge, and led hyim around. He said the STENCH is unbelievable .. there are DEAD BODIES everywhere inside the dome … the bathrooms are unbelievable … And yes, he SAW TWO BABIES DIE in front of him … ec., etc.)
Congratulations. Good work from a person just released from hospital, just a few days ago!
The Feds do not seem to realize each moment they discuss and hesitate and worry about their image and their politics, people die. The people were mishandled from the beginning, from the evacuation to the aftermath to today.
I had such a dark feeling when I saw people being herded into the superdome on Sunday. It looked like a trap. They should have been airlifted out or put on trains.
(Scottie is beginning to use the word ‘ongoing’ and rejects any question on the mishandling of this emergency as ‘finger pointing.’)
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I remember distinctly that it was Powell face on the screen for the first 3 to five days after Spetember 11th while everyone else hid in undisclosed places….
There is no leadership….
That’s cause Condi is on vacation. And we wouldn’t want to let a little thing like a national tragedy interrupt her fun now, would we?
My god – I hope the journalists don’t leave. If you were evil – it really would be easier to clean up and repair the shipping and refining infrastructure if they were all dead.
Another dome — The Alamo Dome — to the rescue.
Remember the Alamo Dome. San Antonio.
If we can’t save people, we may have a pretty good fucking arena football league developing.
They said they would take an additional 25k people, and that it wouldn’t be limited to just the people from the Superdome, like the Astrodome is going to be.
Are things still happening in the real world? Or are all these reporters just describing what’s happening in the latest Stephen King book? I can’t tell anymore.
Fucking craziness. I can’t wait for the SuperFlu to reach a location near me.
I just heard Chertoff say that although he doesn’t know how many still need rescue from rooves, etc, he thinks that to say a thousand still need rescue seems high to him. What? He also said that as the people are recued, they are being directed to one of the many staging areas in the city to await evacuation, WHERE THEY ARE RECEIVING FOOD AND WATER!!!!!!!!!!! He just said it again… he said the people are being given food and water. LIAR!!!
He also said many people are … on their own… making their way to the Superdome. Implying that it’s their own damn fault for not staying where they were told… as if the people are being given all the information, food and water that they need. I’m going to put my foot through the tv in one minute. This amounts to blaming the victims.
Shannika has a great diary up at DKos:
Best to have the Republicans lose the next election or two. They need some time off to go think.
Wow, did anybody else just see Jack Cafferty go ballistic on CNN?? He was as good as Susan. He is so angry and he’s not done yet. He’s coming back on. He said in all his life he has never seen a federal effort so bungled. He said, Where the Hell is the water for these people? It’s been five days,” hes said, five days! He went on and on, like that. God bless him.